Re: [newbie] How to go about creating a new partition.

2004-02-12 Thread John Richard Smith
Marc Resnick wrote: Last time I tried to make a partition to give Linux more hard drive space, I completely screwed up Linux. Here's my plan for doing it this time. If there's anything I might screw up by doing this, please tell me. 1. Use Partition Magic in windows to resize my NTFS Windows

RE: [newbie] How to go about creating a new partition.

2004-02-12 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Marc, When creating partitions on Linux, they run with numbers, and they go in order. You fstab uses these numbers to mount the partitions. If you create a new partition at the end of the drive it will get a number after the last partition, i.e. last part is 12 new will be 13. If you create

RE: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-12 Thread Dale Kosan
So, has anyone been able to get it to work right? What steps did you use to do it? Thanks in advance Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] Urpmi Strange Behavour

2004-02-12 Thread Tony S. Sykes
When I see this normally it is due to the site's being slow/down. Can you view it in a browser? Tony. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Aron Smith Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 6:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Urpmi Strange

[newbie] sort of OT but nice to see

2004-02-12 Thread Poogle
My local PC World (Derby, U.K.) has both Discovery Powerpack on the shelves -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-12 Thread Paul Kaplan
1. downloaded all the 9.2 rpms to a directory (including libs and qt3.2) 2. separated out those that I didn't want to install to a subdirectory 3. cd to the directory with the rpms you want to install 4. tested the remaining rpms with rpm -Uvh *.rpm --test 5. resolved the dependencies (some were

[newbie] How To Go About Installing Any Distro On A G5

2004-02-12 Thread Ronald Valente
I am trying just to boot the install I cannot get it to load yaboot audomatically and when it does there is a kernal panic. I got the latest...2.6.11b -Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] How to clear autologin

2004-02-12 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 12 February 2004 00:33, Hoyt Bailey wrote: Please bear in mind I dont speak mandrake and linux poorly. What should I do to the /etc/inittab file??? Quite frankly, you don't have to speak Mandrake lingo but it would help if you read the answers you get, better. I posted about 3

RE: [newbie] Matrix screensaver-stick to Debian

2004-02-12 Thread Ken Walker
Before you wipe off Debian, make a disk image, you may be going back to it. I recently installed 9.2 ( last week ) onto my laptop which loved MDK8.2. I wanted to know what this wonderful new version had to offer. So I ticked everything. On reboot, it wouldn't set-up my video or network. It gave

Re: [newbie] How to go about creating a new partition.

2004-02-12 Thread Marc Resnick
On Thursday 12 February 2004 05:20 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Marc Resnick wrote: Last time I tried to make a partition to give Linux more hard drive space, I completely screwed up Linux. Here's my plan for doing it this time. If there's anything I might screw up by doing this, please

Re: [newbie] beta mdk10 doesnt give kde 3.2 new deskop????

2004-02-12 Thread di di
Charlie, thanks for your answer By the way, can you give any mirror to get that new cooker? Fabian. From: Charlie Mahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] beta mdk10 doesnt give kde 3.2 new deskop Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 17:07:09

Re: [newbie] How to clear autologin

2004-02-12 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 12 February 2004 01:25, Hoyt Bailey wrote: Hehe, looks you found itforget my grumble, grumble mail on the /etc/innitab issue..sorry;) Thanks I am well acquainted with vi but not mc. Anyway it worked I loged into a text screen issued startx, as me, and was automatically

Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-12 Thread lanman
On February 12, 2004 06:09 am, Dale Kosan wrote: So, has anyone been able to get it to work right? What steps did you use to do it? Thanks in advance First, I'd like to apoligise to anyone who took my advice when installing KDE 3.2. I made a serious Boo-Boo when i said that you could

[newbie] How to setup sending the mails in Kmail

2004-02-12 Thread Christophe
Hello, I installed the linuxant driver and know I can connect at 14000 bps (I test before upgrading to the full version)... My problem is that I tried to setup Kmail under mandrake 9.2 and impossible to send my mails but I can get them. Is there a special setup for linux because using my infos

Re: [newbie] Matrix screensaver-stick to Debian

2004-02-12 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 12 February 2004 12:46, Ken Walker wrote: Before you wipe off Debian, make a disk image, you may be going back to it. I recently installed 9.2 ( last week ) onto my laptop which loved MDK8.2. I wanted to know what this wonderful new version had to offer. So I ticked everything.

Re: [newbie] python 2.3 - for 9.1?

2004-02-12 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 12 February 2004 01:15, Todd Slater wrote: There's an app I want that requires python 2.3; anybody know if I could grab the rpm's for 9.2 and use in 9.1? Or, even better, if there's a python 2.3 package for 9.1? I've tried urpmi and rpmfind.net. Todd I think that's what I did at

Re: [newbie] How to change font setting for man pages

2004-02-12 Thread Wojciech Podgrni
Olivier Esser wrote: Wojciech Podgrni wrote: Olivier Esser wrote: Wojciech Podgrni wrote: Hi everyone, I have been searching for the answer of this question for a some time and I staill cannot find the answer: how do you change font setting for man pages to ISO8859-2 coding? TIA Wojciech

Re: [newbie] How to clear autologin

2004-02-12 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 06:12 Subject: Re: [newbie] How to clear autologin FYI: I think what happened I received a message posted 2 minutes before one of mine. I wasnt sure if someones clock was

[newbie] dalziel-1.2

2004-02-12 Thread Johan
Hi, I am a standalone user that does not have practice on networks. I googled but there don't seem to be any good howto out there. I would like to understand the workings and learn by it. Please anybody on this list familiar with dalziel or rsync-plus that could possibly change this to be

Re: [newbie] How to setup sending the mails in Kmail

2004-02-12 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 12 Feb 2004 12:25 pm, Christophe wrote: Hello, I installed the linuxant driver and know I can connect at 14000 bps (I test before upgrading to the full version)... My problem is that I tried to setup Kmail under mandrake 9.2 and impossible to send my mails but I can get them. Is

Re: [newbie] How to clear autologin

2004-02-12 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 12 February 2004 14:00, Hoyt Bailey wrote: - Original Message - From: H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 06:12 Subject: Re: [newbie] How to clear autologin FYI: I think what happened I received a message posted 2

[newbie] Gartner: MS Licensing is good for Linux

2004-02-12 Thread JoeHill
Quote: ...if research from analyst Gartner proves to be accurate, Microsoft will lose desktop market share to other client operating systems such as Linux, as customers look elsewhere for additional value. Link: http://www.computing.co.uk/News/1152713 Another article actually puts a number to

RE: [newbie] Matrix screensaver-stick to Debian

2004-02-12 Thread Ken Walker
Yep, non-member download version doesn't have the usb pen bit, and it doesn't do any network set-up or video set-up or etc that works on my lappy. I would have bought it for the usb bit but the set-up from CD is just useless. And if I have to set everything up by hand, what's it going to be like

[newbie] on distributions...

2004-02-12 Thread Dobrescu Mihai
Hi! I am freshly new in this community. Bored of ms I was looking for a new horizon. I am a developer and an user of Windows ... so far at least. My first impression on Linux is that it is great to be an open project for everybody can do something. Also, in time, I had the impression that Linux

Re: [newbie] Matrix screensaver-stick to Debian

2004-02-12 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 12 February 2004 15:16, Ken Walker wrote: It's not a scratch on Knoppix. Ken Agreed, personally I think the slackware live version does a better job than Move.faster too. Though I must say, the Chines Dictionary and the games are exceptionally cool on knoppix/freeduc:) Still

[newbie] Drivers, NIC, Internet...help!

2004-02-12 Thread piagetblix
Hello, I am a returning LInux user from a few years ago and am quite rusty. I have a Shuttle nforce2 mobo with nvidia network adapter. I downloaded the mandrake 9.1 specific rpm from the nvidia site and did a rpm -ivh. It seemed to install. I am using 9.2. What else do I need to do to get this

Re: [newbie] Matrix screensaver-stick to Debian

2004-02-12 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday 12 February 2004 7:49 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Thursday 12 February 2004 15:16, Ken Walker wrote: It's not a scratch on Knoppix. Ken Agreed, personally I think the slackware live version does a better job than Move.faster too.

[newbie] Mandrake 9.1 on a 64MB RAM box

2004-02-12 Thread Tadimeti Keshav
Hi all, I wonder if I can install and run Mandrake 9.1 on a machine with a Pentium 200 MMX, 64MB RAM and 10 GB HDD. I believe the processor and RAM will limit the usability of the machine. Can I install MDK without KDE/GNOME? My experience has been that MDK would install KDE whether you want it

Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-12 Thread Dan Gordon
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 07:24:45 -0500 lanman wrote: That should work flawlessly, unless you try to force something that shouldn't be installed. As soon as that's done, run MenuDrake to refresh your KDE desktop menu listing. I'm now running KDE 3.2 and it's running perfectly. Thanks

Re: [newbie] How to go about creating a new partition.

2004-02-12 Thread John Richard Smith
Marc Resnick wrote: On Thursday 12 February 2004 05:20 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Marc Resnick wrote: Last time I tried to make a partition to give Linux more hard drive space, I completely screwed up Linux. Here's my plan for doing it this time. If there's anything I might screw up by doing

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 on a 64MB RAM box

2004-02-12 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 17:14:42 + (GMT) Tadimeti Keshav [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I wonder if I can install and run Mandrake 9.1 on a machine with a Pentium 200 MMX, 64MB RAM and 10 GB HDD. I believe the processor and RAM will limit the usability of the machine. Can I install MDK

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 on a 64MB RAM box

2004-02-12 Thread David Sexton
You should be able to install it just do a custom install and specifiy what you want to install. If I recall I had 9.1 running on a P200 with 64mb of ram and KDE it was a bit slow but worked. From: Tadimeti Keshav [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/02/12 Thu PM 12:14:42 EST To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] beta mdk10 doesnt give kde 3.2 new deskop????

2004-02-12 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday 12 February 2004 5:07 am, di di wrote: Charlie, thanks for your answer You're welcome. The answer is at the bottom. By the way, can you give any mirror to get that new cooker? Fabian. From: Charlie Mahan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Urpmi Strange Behavour

2004-02-12 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 12 February 2004 06:19, Aron Smith wrote: examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.contrib.cz] for a Lng time It sounds as though you have the same contrib mirror as I did. Try removing it and selecting another mirror. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 on a 64MB RAM box

2004-02-12 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 05:14:42PM +, Tadimeti Keshav wrote: Hi all, I wonder if I can install and run Mandrake 9.1 on a machine with a Pentium 200 MMX, 64MB RAM and 10 GB HDD. I believe the processor and RAM will limit the usability of the machine. Can I install MDK without

Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-12 Thread robin
Dan Gordon wrote: On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 07:24:45 -0500 lanman wrote: That should work flawlessly, unless you try to force something that shouldn't be installed. As soon as that's done, run MenuDrake to refresh your KDE desktop menu listing. I'm now running KDE 3.2 and it's running perfectly.

Re: [newbie] StarDict

2004-02-12 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 12 February 2004 21:57, Josenildo Marques wrote: On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 19:39, ronald wrote: Wow! I found myself on the download page, and there are so many possibilities! The downloads are preceded by a note about reading release notes and changelogs, but these are not on

Re: [newbie] Can't change permissions of mounted partition.

2004-02-12 Thread Marc Resnick
On Thursday 12 February 2004 05:20 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 12 Feb 2004 9:57 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: I need to be able to use an extra FAT32 partition as a regular user. In root, when I chmod it to 777, nothing happens. When I try to use Nautilus to set the permissions, I try

[newbie] A command to list running processes.

2004-02-12 Thread Marc Resnick
Is there a shell command to list running processes? I used screen to start up a game server, then detached. If I want to stop it, what do I do? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] A command to list running processes.

2004-02-12 Thread Christoph Eckert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Donnerstag, 12. Februar 2004 23:58 schrieb Marc Resnick: Is there a shell command to list running processes? I used screen to start up a game server, then detached. If I want to stop it, what do I do? ps -aux | grep NAME or ps -e | grep NAME

Re: [newbie] A command to list running processes.

2004-02-12 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 12 February 2004 04:58 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: Is there a shell command to list running processes? I used screen to start up a game server, then detached. If I want to stop it, what do I do? You can see everything running and its pid # by typing top in a console, does not have to be

RE: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-12 Thread Dale Kosan
How did you add it to urpmi? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Gordon Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 12:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms On Thu, 12 Feb

Re: [newbie] How to change font setting for man pages

2004-02-12 Thread Wojciech Podgrni
Dick Gevers wrote: On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:54:18 +0100, Wojciech Podgrni wrote about Re: [newbie] How to change font setting for man pages: I have been searching for the answer of this question for a some time and I staill cannot find the answer: how do you change font setting for man pages to

Re: [newbie] insmod reports error because no floppy

2004-02-12 Thread Olivier Esser
Guy Rouillier wrote: Olivier Esser wrote: Guy Rouillier wrote: On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 08:09:57 -0500 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 08 February 2004 02:45 am, Guy Rouillier wrote: -I just got a new laptop that has no floppy. With both Mandrake 9.2 -32-bit and the AMD64 beta,

Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-12 Thread lanman
On February 13, 2004 07:06 pm, Dale Kosan wrote: How did you add it to urpmi? Dale; You're best bet is to download the whole folder from my server as i have to shut it down on Saturday. Once you have it on your PC, then use the following command which assumes that your KDE32 folder is in

Re: [newbie] beta mdk10 doesnt give kde 3.2 new deskop????

2004-02-12 Thread di di
Thanks! I`ll try it right away! Bye. Fabian. From: Charlie Mahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] beta mdk10 doesnt give kde 3.2 new deskop Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 11:29:43 -0700 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday 12

[newbie] This is why I love this OS...

2004-02-12 Thread JoeHill
CPU's maxed out recoding a DivX as SVCD, GCombust just burned Aliens to CD and it's playing without a blip or skip, I'm composing an e-mail, downloading more movies (see eth0), and it's all smooth as silk, and on a crappy ol' P3866 Intel810. Try this in XP...

Re: [newbie] External Projector

2004-02-12 Thread yankl
On Thursday 12 February 2004 00:42, Adolfo Bello wrote: I'm trying to use a Epson PowerLite S1 external projector with Mandrake 9.1 on a Toshiba laptop which has a NVidia card. I am using the open driver that comes with Mandrake. I am having some problem making this thing to work. .- I have

[newbie] dev/null

2004-02-12 Thread Lee Wiggers
Okay, here I am, ticked off enough at a list to dev/null the lot of 'em and I don't know how. Help? Lee PS It's not an mdk list and I can't unsub. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] A command to list running processes.

2004-02-12 Thread Lee B.
Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 12 February 2004 04:58 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: Is there a shell command to list running processes? I used screen to start up a game server, then detached. If I want to stop it, what do I do? You can see everything running and its pid # by typing top in a

Re: [newbie] dev/null

2004-02-12 Thread Lee B.
Lee Wiggers wrote: Okay, here I am, ticked off enough at a list to dev/null the lot of 'em and I don't know how. Look in the email header. The unsub link is in there. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Need some type of system restore!

2004-02-12 Thread marc resnick
Is there some type of system restore I can do? I(the genius) copied all of my files from /home/marc into a link to my new partition. Then I deleted /home/marc... Nothing will run =( Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] This is why I love this OS...

2004-02-12 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 07:58:12PM -0500, JoeHill wrote: CPU's maxed out recoding a DivX as SVCD, GCombust just burned Aliens to CD and it's playing without a blip or skip, I'm composing an e-mail, downloading more movies (see eth0), and it's all smooth as silk, and on a crappy ol' P3866

Re: [newbie] dev/null

2004-02-12 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 08:55:36PM -0500, Lee Wiggers wrote: Okay, here I am, ticked off enough at a list to dev/null the lot of 'em and I don't know how. Help? Do you have procmail set up? What client are you using? Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] ldm_validate_partition failed

2004-02-12 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 11:28:46PM -0500, Guy Rouillier wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 00:50:11 -0500 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 10:56:20PM -0500, Guy Rouillier wrote: On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 19:39:05 -0500 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had

[newbie] sigmatel usb mp3 player

2004-02-12 Thread Bill Winegarden
Hi all, I recently bought a cheap, 'er inexpensive mp3 player. It is described as a Sigmatel MSCN USB device and it is mounted as a mass storage device in that other OS. I don't like the looks of 2 of those letters! My Fuji 2400 mounts beautifully as a mass storage device but this item is

Re: [newbie] Need some type of system restore!

2004-02-12 Thread lanman
On February 12, 2004 09:40 pm, marc resnick wrote: Is there some type of system restore I can do? I(the genius) copied all of my files from /home/marc into a link to my new partition. Then I deleted /home/marc... Nothing will run =( -- Try rebooting and when your system gets to LILO, select

Re: [newbie] Need some type of system restore!

2004-02-12 Thread marc resnick
On Thursday 12 February 2004 10:02 pm, lanman wrote: On February 12, 2004 09:40 pm, marc resnick wrote: Is there some type of system restore I can do? I(the genius) copied all of my files from /home/marc into a link to my new partition. Then I deleted /home/marc... Nothing will run =(

Re: [newbie] A command to list running processes.

2004-02-12 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 12 February 2004 08:03 pm, Lee B. wrote: Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 12 February 2004 04:58 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: Is there a shell command to list running processes? I used screen to start up a game server, then detached. If I want to stop it, what do I do? You can see

Re: [newbie] Need some type of system restore!

2004-02-12 Thread John Drouhard
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 22:23:02 -0500 marc resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 12 February 2004 10:02 pm, lanman wrote: On February 12, 2004 09:40 pm, marc resnick wrote: Is there some type of system restore I can do? I(the genius) copied all of my files from /home/marc into a link

Re: [newbie] A command to list running processes.

2004-02-12 Thread John Drouhard
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 18:03:22 -0800 Lee B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 12 February 2004 04:58 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: Is there a shell command to list running processes? I used screen to start up a game server, then detached. If I want to stop it, what do I

Re: [newbie] LCP timeout sending Config-Requests

2004-02-12 Thread John Rye
On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 17:13:16 + Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All I have everything configured on my computer to connect to the Internet through Mandrake 9.2. However, I always get the following message (in /var/log/messages): LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests The

Re: [newbie] This is why I love this OS...

2004-02-12 Thread Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf
On Thursday 12 February 2004 07:58 pm, JoeHill wrote: CPU's maxed out recoding a DivX as SVCD, GCombust just burned Aliens to CD and it's playing without a blip or skip, I'm composing an e-mail, downloading more movies (see eth0), and it's all smooth as silk, and on a crappy ol' P3866

Re: [newbie] This is why I love this OS...

2004-02-12 Thread anton
Yay Tux! -=-=- ... Pardon me while I laugh. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-12 Thread anton
lanman wrote: On February 13, 2004 07:06 pm, Dale Kosan wrote: How did you add it to urpmi? Dale; You're best bet is to download the whole folder from my server as i have to shut it down on Saturday. Once you have it on your PC, then use the following command which assumes that your KDE32

Re: [newbie] This is why I love this OS...

2004-02-12 Thread Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf
On Thursday 12 February 2004 11:33 pm, anton wrote: Yay Tux! -=-=- ... Pardon me while I laugh. Lol. Yea it does seem weird. But then again I'm an elitist about this kind of stuff. I have about 54 OSs, all of which I know how to use, and I STILL use Linux. Damn near 10,000 dollars in

[newbie] Linux Modem

2004-02-12 Thread ka ...
I have just install Linux Mandrake 8 (kernel v. 2.4.3). my modem is a broadcom (BCM V.92 56K Modem) how can i make it work; i found something in http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/archive-third/msg01652.html but i dont understand very well, so can somebody tell me exactly what to do?

Re: [newbie] on distributions...

2004-02-12 Thread Dobrescu Mihai
Thanks Anne! I'm really surprised that you read my letter entirely! It was provoked by the reaction of users to changes! I think also that the power of Linux consits in command line tools and we really need to have mc and memtest! --- Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 12 February

Re: [newbie] This is why I love this OS...

2004-02-12 Thread Dobrescu Mihai
See below! --- JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CPU's maxed out recoding a DivX as SVCD, GCombust just burned Aliens to CD and it's playing without a blip or skip, I'm composing an e-mail, downloading more movies (see eth0), and it's all smooth as silk, and on a crappy ol' P3866 Intel810.

Re: [newbie] This is why I love this OS...

2004-02-12 Thread Aron Smith
On Thursday 12 February 2004 08:17 pm, Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: On Thursday 12 February 2004 07:58 pm, JoeHill wrote: CPU's maxed out recoding a DivX as SVCD, GCombust just burned Aliens to CD and it's playing without a blip or skip, I'm composing an e-mail, downloading more movies

Re: [newbie] This is why I love this OS...

2004-02-12 Thread Aron Smith
On Thursday 12 February 2004 08:17 pm, Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: On Thursday 12 February 2004 07:58 pm, JoeHill wrote: CPU's maxed out recoding a DivX as SVCD, GCombust just burned Aliens to CD and it's playing without a blip or skip, I'm composing an e-mail, downloading more movies